Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 20: After receiving a one-year prison sentence in the 1988 road rage case, ex-Punjab Congress chairman Navjot Singh Sidhu has requested more time to surrender on medical grounds. In response, the court requested him to bring the matter before the Chief Justice of India.
The Supreme Court had already granted a review of its May 2018 decision exonerating former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu in the 34-year-old road rage case in which Patiala resident Gurnam Singh died.
According to the order, Punjab police will take Sidhu into jail. Sidhu had previously been given a Rs 1,000 fine. Sidhu has now been sentenced to the maximum penalty under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code.
Notably on May 15, 2018, the Supreme Court overturned a Punjab and Haryana High Court decision convicting Sidhu of culpable homicide and imposing a three-year sentence in the case, but found him guilty of injuring an elderly citizen.
The case concerns the death of a man named Gurnam Singh, a Patiala native, in December 1988, when Sidhu and a companion assaulted him in a road rage incident. On Thursday, the Supreme Court awarded Sidhu one-year rigorous imprisonment.
